Eureka
Dear Chicago,
Signed,
A St. Louisan.
P.S. This is what happens when undocumented dumbasses cross over from a more comprehensive state to a less comprehensive state. The river is wide, both literally in its current over-flood-stage state and figuratively.
U.S. Senate
Rand Paul again stipulated that he wants amnesty and open borders, and repeated to a Senate hearing over the Gang Bangers of Eight bill currently going through markup what he said to the Hispanic Chamber Pot of Commerce, that anyone in the world that wants to work here, “we will find a place for you.” But he has enough problems with this bill to vote no. Which is all we want out of him, because if this bill doesn’t pass, I don’t see immigration coming up in Congress for the rest of this year or next year, or in 2015 or 2016 if the Republicans hold the House in ’14. That said, as far as any desire I had for him to be President, he’s well on the other side of the Rubicon.
Ted Cruz did something interesting earlier this week. He introduced an amendment to the GBof8 bill in markup to prohibit for life illegal aliens currently in country. If he’s serious about this amendment, then it’s a dumb idea, because (everybody in unison) the work permit is the amnesty. So what they’re not citizens? If they’re in country with work permits, then that’s the holy grail for the EL CHEAPO labor lobby. If this is a provocative stunt on his part, then I like it, because like I’ve said in this space and elsewhere, pure partisan jealousy and sniping will kill this or any “comprehensive yadda yadda” before our phone calls and letters (*) will. I doubt Cruz’s amendment will be marked up, but if it does, this probably keeps the bill from passing the Senate. Anything which gets this bill killed is fine by me.
(*) – On almost a daily basis during weekdays, I’m calling wobbly Republican and Democrat Senators, pretending to be someone from their states.
Baltimore
The EL CHEAPO labor lobby is now jumping on the “it’ll save Social Security and Medicare” bandwagon.
This is why I’m glad I have a blog, because I’ve already blown through this bullshit. Read this and this.
Los Angeles
One in ten residents of Los Angeles Commune, Mexifornia are here illegally.
Seems like the truth is the other way around, that one in ten residents of that county are here legally.
Boston
This is an Ethiopian-born buddy of the Tsarnaevs who is accused of disposing of materiel used to commit the Boston Massacre.
He was just let out on bond today, but before they let him go, he had to pass a drug test.
Oh, goody. He’s accused of helping to hide evidence after a terrorist attack, and what The Man is worried about is whether he’s doing dope.
Any chance of Ethiopia taking him back?
Washington, D.C.
Turns out Americans will do and are doing the jobs that Americans won’t do.
Which is common sense, because there was a time that Americans had to do the jobs that Americans won’t do because we didn’t swing the borders wide open to let the kind of people in to do the jobs that Americans won’t do.
And also…EL CHEAPO labor lobby.
Stanford, California
Additional H-1B Workers Would Add Billions to GDP and Federal Tax Revenue
Our inaugural post estimates the economic and budgetary effects of one part of the Senate Gang of Eight’s proposed immigration reform. It shows that increasing the caps on H-1B visas leads to non-trivial economic and fiscal effects, at least partially offsetting worries over the cost of immigration reform in the next ten years.
Initial estimates put the appropriations cost of the Senate Gang of Eight’s immigration bill (S. 744) at about $17 billion over ten years, leading at least a few politicians to cite cost as a potential reason to oppose its passage. But as Senator Rubio and others have pointed out, that cost does not include the economic benefits and tax revenue that would come from future immigrants. One group in particular, new H-1B visa workers, would add an estimated $456 billion to GDP and $113 billion to federal tax revenue over the next ten years. $244 billion of that increase in GDP would accrue to current US citizens and residents, with the rest going to the new H-1B workers.
The Senate Gang of Eight’s immigration plan increases the general cap on H-1B visas to a minimum of 110,000 and a maximum of 180,000, and increases the master’s degree cap from 20,000 to 25,000. Assuming the first year after passage puts the general cap of initial visas at 110,000 and increases every year by increments of 10,000, then the ten year estimated effect of the law is to increase GDP by $424 billion and federal tax revenue by $107 billion.
Cool. The Federal government would have more revenues, because the Federal government is obviously suffering a revenue intake problem. (Insert laugh tracks here)
Small print: Native born white Americans would be shut out of even more industries and career tracks even more than they already are. But who other than racists and bigots care about them?
Cherokee Street
P-D gushes over Cinco on Cherokee.
There was a day when Cherokee Street was a legitimate competitor to Downtown for big time shopping. (Yeah, I know, it’s also hard to realize that Downtown had big time shopping). I am just old enough to have seen Cherokee Street as a shopping venue well past its peak, but still functional. But as I got into my early teenage years, Bellcurvius started swarming in from the north, and Cherokee Street died bit by bit.
Now, the comprehensive immigration reform people are moving in and displacing Bellcurvius. Since anything is an improvement over the lowest common denominator that are ooks, it’s just a matter of pure logic that Cherokee Street is better off than it was now that it’s Mexico instead of Africa. Still, it’s not the America it once was.
South Carolina
DeMint: If they read it, they won’t come.
Well, yeah. He’s right. But I’ll take it one step further: If they read it, they’ll march and mob on Washington with pitchforks. At the very least, Marco Rubio’s political career will be so over that he’ll have to tend bar with his father at second rate weddings to make a living.
DeMint’s Heritage Foundation just let loose of a report outlining that the Gang Bangers of Eight Bill will cost the Feds and states and local governments more than six terabucks in new spending over the lifetimes of illegal aliens so amnestied/legalized/work permitted under the bill. I think it would be more than that in reality, because Heritage is underestimating the number of illegals in country, and forgetting about daisy chain migration. Still, even this underestimate of $6.3T is not good PR for the Gang Bangers of Eight and the EL CHEAPO labor lobby they’re sucking off.
New York
…is helping to fund the GOP’s amnesty and open borders wing.
This one’s fortune came from hedge funds. Therefore, unlike Sheldon Adelson, another GOP amnesty and open border wing sugar daddy, who directly benefits and profits as the labor wage scale is driven down, (which of course is one of the real desired effects of “comprehensive immigration reform”), as Adelson hires a lot of cheap labor Hispanics in his Las Vegas casinos, Paul Singer’s interest in amnesty and open borders isn’t direct, because a mass onslaught of cheap labor peasant Mezo-Indo-Chicano jungle people doesn’t reduce his firm’s labor costs. No, his interest is growth for the sake of growth. That and I’m sure he thinks he can shave his labor costs a little with the allotment of legal immigrant visas being expanded in the Gang Bangers of Eight bill.
U.S. Senate
Guess who’s jonesing to kill the Gang Bangers of Eight bill.
Which is good, but I’ll never trust him with the Presidency, ever. He may have been compelled and pressured to come out against this bill, but he still wants an amnesty bill of some sort.
Mike Lee’s immigration record is a bit spotty as well.
Washington, D.C.
Rush:
The Democrats defeating Obama’s gun control bill in the Senate was an earthquake for Obama. He was livid about that. I think he probably still is. The Democrats were supposed to pass Obama’s gun control bill. It was supposed to die in the House where the Republicans run the show. The whole purpose of that bill was written so that the Republicans would never vote for it. That’s the truth of the matter. That gun control bill was never intended to become law. That was a campaign issue.
The plan was the Democrats pass it. It sails through the Senate. Then it goes to the House where those mean Republicans, who want people to have as many guns as possible, assault rifles and whatever to shoot anybody they want, that’s what the Republicans want, they were supposed to kill it. And then Obama, who wants to win the House for the Democrats in 2014, would have a campaign issue, claiming the Republicans don’t care about kids; Republicans don’t care about people. They’re perfectly fine if people get shot. They love it. The more guns the better. That was gonna be the campaign tactic, but it blew up because the Democrats voted it down, and Obama was ticked.
So I think, to avoid the same thing happening on this Gang of Eight immigration bill in the Senate, the worst thing in the world would be if this thing died in the Senate. This is another one. It’s supposed to sail through the Senate, and it’s the Republicans who are supposed to stop it, so that Obama and the Democrats campaigning in 2014 can say the Republicans hate Hispanics and all that attending BS: Republicans hate Hispanics, Republicans are racists, Republicans don’t like new citizens, whatever. But because the gun control bill lost in the Senate, I think Politico was sending a story out warning these Democrats, like Baucus and other Democrats: You guys had better get your minds right after the gun control bill and not make the same mistake.
There’s one big difference between the gun issue and the immigration issue: While there is enough of a cultural divide among white people on the gun issue that this tactic had a small chance of working, there isn’t quite so much of an acidic divide on immigration. If the Gang Bangers of Eight bill passes the Senate, dies in the House and Obama/OFA/Dems run these “Republicans hate Hispanics” ads, that will only increase the percentage of white people that vote Republican.
Of course, I think it’s all a moot discussion, because House districts are so well gerrymandered that save an extremely unusual circumstance, Democrats have no hope of winning the House any time this decade. Obama’s base shows up big time in 2014? Yeah, so what? They’re clumped up in solid blue gerrymanders. Obama’s base showing up might affect some Senate races, because they’re contested as statewide elections, but one extra Democrat voter voting in a blue gerrymander makes zero difference in the ultimate composition of the House. Obama’s base showed up big time last year to re-elect Obama, and various Senate Democrats in many states, but it barely made a dent in Republican control of the House, for that reason. I keep pointing to Ohio and Florida as examples: Obama won both states, incumbent Democrat Senators won re-election in both states, but Republicans won 12 of 16 House seats in Ohio and 17 of 27 in Florida, because of good gerrymandering by those states’ Republican-run state legislatures in 2011.
America
Calvin Coolidge was the last President who signed legislation to reduce the amount of legal immigration into the United States.
Dwight Eisenhower was the last President who actually took enforcing immigration law seriously.
Silicon Valley
The older I get, the more I start to think that “letting” people under 40 come into very large fortunes is as foolish as giving a loaded pistol to an infant.
It goes back to the phrase oft repeated among us proles, that “they won’t let you really make money until you’re at least 40.” Of course, there is no “they,” because there is no sadistic cigar muncher on the top floor of some high rise building who has a dossier on every person in the country, who swings the “let him or her make money” switch upon his or her fortieth birthday. What that proletarian phrase means is that there is an informal societal-cultural norm that people or institutions who already have money aren’t going to trust anyone else with serious sums of their money until they’ve had time as young adults and early middle aged adults to prove their abilities and character and moxie.
Unfortunately, older people with big fortunes don’t serve society much better.
Boston
So what if it had to be Bob Beckel?
Has there been any reaction to this that you have seen or heard? Now, if Pat Buchanan had said this or if I had said this yesterday, or if Senator Jeff Sessions had said it or if Rand Paul had said it or if John Boehner had said it, or if George W. Bush at his library opening had said it, if any Republican had said, “We need to send these Muslims back home. We need to consider the fact we have to cut off Muslim students coming to this country.” I’m stunned. I’ve had cable news on all day. They’ve had nobody outraged at what Beckel said. CAIR hasn’t said anything, Council on Arab-American Islamic Relations. They haven’t said anything. I’m stunned by that.
I wouldn’t even bother wondering why there is no outrage from leftists and CAIR types, because I’m glad there is no outrage. Even though neither PJB nor Jeff Sessions actually said it, you know that they believe it. What’s said is that neither Rand Paul, John Boehner nor George W. Bush would say this because the wisdom of doing this (and a lot more) would never occur to them.
Speaking of Rush, he had this to say today also:
The media and the pundits are all wondering openly where the Tsarnaev brothers became radicalized. They’re wringing their hands out there. They’re trying desperately to figure it out. Where did they pick up their anti-America, anti-Christian notions? Did it happen in Chechnya? Did it happen in the home? Did it happen in America? Did it happen on the Internet? They’re all trying to figure it out.
Well, let me try this. One of the more disturbing interviews that I have heard was with a man in Cambridge who knew Tamerlan Tsarnaev. This guy said that Tamerlan Tsarnaev often engaged in anti-American rants. It was common to hear this guy riff on what a rotten place America is. So they asked this guy, “Well, why didn’t you ever say anything about it?” You know what this guy in Cambridge said? He said Tamerlan’s rants are so commonplace in Cambridge, that he didn’t think there was anything out of the ordinary. I believe it. Cambridge, of course, is the home of Harvard, and I made reference to this last Thursday when this was going down.
So much for worrying that these two didn’t assimilate. Because they actually did assimilate — They fit in perfectly in a town full of anti-white anti-American wacko birds like Cambridge, Massachusetts.
I’m personally getting tired of all this nail-biting hype and hoopla from Official America every time a Muslim terrorist wacko bird acts up. You know, they all ask, “How did they get radicalized?” What they’re really asking is, “Just exactly how is what they did our fault?” In reality, the Chechnyans didn’t “get radicalized,” because they were already “radical” to begin with, practically from the moment of conception.
UPDATE 5 PM
Another wacko bird squaks. Basically, this one is saying that Boston got what it deserved because it’s too conservative.
U.S. House
The Vice-President That Wasn’t: Amnesty and open borders now! Because…Boston.
Didn’t I tell you to watch out for people insanely making the case that the Boston Massacre is somehow a reason we have to do amnesty and open borders?
Washington, D.C.
Politico: Amnesty hurts Republicans.
Stupid Party: Yeah, but losing is our only path to winning.
The Detroit Lions finished 0-16 in the 2008 NFL season. They were close and competitive in many of those games, and those were said to be “moral victories.” Too bad that moral victories don’t count as real victories in the standings.
U.S. Senate
Breitbart uncovers the e-mail trail.
Now, will conservative talk radio finally grok the game he’s playing and quit letting him use their shows to play it?
U.S. Senate
Guess who wants to slow down the amnesty train.
But…before you think he’s changed his mind, read carefully:
I believe that any real comprehensive immigration reform must implement strong national security protections. The facts emerging in the Boston Marathon bombing have exposed a weakness in our current system. If we don’t use this debate as an opportunity to fix flaws in our current system, flaws made even more evident last week, then we will not be doing our jobs.
IOW, RP is greasing the skids for what I predicted earlier today. In reality, we all know that “comprehensive immigration reform” and “strong national security protections” are diametrically opposing concepts.
Boston
Get ready to hear these two refrains over and over again from Official America or parts thereof:
1. We need “comprehensive immigration reform” in order to prevent, deter and crack down on terrorism. The Gang Bangers of Eight bill will actually help us do that, bring terrorists that are already out of the shadows out of the shadows. Only ignorant rubes think otherwise.
2. The (real) Russians (“and not Islam”) are actually responsible for the Boston Massacre, therefore we need to admit all of Russia’s neighbors but not Russia itself into NATO, and cooperate with them all except for Russia on a nuclear missile defense shield.
Because:
H/T Nicholas Stix.
UPDATE 4 PM
Daily Caller
I don’t care what “anti-immigration groups” are or aren’t, or who labels them what or doesn’t label them. They’re doing the right thing. If immigration patriotism isn’t conservative, then conservatism is the problem, and I’m not conservative.
Pray, why do we have to square all our political desires with some ideology or orthodoxy? It’s like I said here awhile back, inordinate adherence to an abstract ideology when doing so hurts your personal or collective well being is a form of mental illness. Ideology exists to serve people, not the other way around. When it does become the other way around, then the ideology has become a cult and its adherents cultists.
Gang Bangers of Eight
CNS:
Rubio Reason for Legalizing Illegals: ‘They Are Driving on Our Streets Without a Driver’s License’
Sen. Marco Rubio (R.-Fla.), one of eight senators who have crafted legislation that would put illegal aliens on a path to U.S. citizenship, explained in a Senate floor speech yesterday that one of the reasons he wants to do this is that he believes illegal aliens are currently driving on U.S. roads without drivers licenses and auto insurance and his bill would encourage them to get licenses and buy insurance.
Rubio explained that under his bill ilegal aliens who “have committed serious crimes” will be deported. However, the proposal will apparently not deem as a serious crime the habit of routinely driving without a driver’s license.
1. Okay, so we legalize them, and they’ll still drive around on the streets (often drunk) without drivers licenses.
2. Many states already give drivers licenses to illegal aliens.
3. “Buy insurance.” As if. If they bother to get insurance, they’ll play the same games that Bellcurvius plays — Buy a short term policy from some street corner outfit and have it just long enough to get the license plates from the DOR. If your closest DOR or fee office is surrounded by corner store front establishments selling auto insurance offered by firms you’ve never heard of, (Yes, South Kingshighway, I’m looking at you), then that’s how you can tell that you’re either in the ghetto or close to the ghetto.
4. Illegals who commit serious crimes are already supposed to be deported. A lot of the time, the Feds won’t even pursue a civil case of deportation against them, and the times they do try, there is almost always some hangup or technicality along the way which prevents their actual deportation.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
The official caption of this Getty Images photo:
CAMBRIDGE, MA – APRIL 19: Residents are evacuated as members of the FBI, State Police, Boston Police, Cambridge Police, and other law enforcement agencies survey the perimeter near the home of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Norfolk Street on April 19, 2013 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After a car chase and shootout with police, one suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was shot and killed by police early morning April 19, and a manhunt is underway for his brother and second suspect, 19-year-old Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev. The two men are suspects in the bombings at the Boston Marathon on April 15 that killed three people and wounded at least 170.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, this photo does say a lot on its own.
Chechnya
Yet such freakouts are nothing compared to what is in store if the the Marathon bombing means that Chechen jihadis has come to U.S. shores. The Chechens mounted one of the most vicious terror campaigns ever against Russia in the 1990s, blowing up apartment buildings, and launching massive attacks on theaters and even schools. They are known as among the most violent and dedicated terrorists in the world. They can be found fighting in Libya, Syria and every other major jihadi campaign. Though usually they have to sneak into the target countries, rather than coming on a visa as the Boston bombers apparently did.)
Russia only succeeded in suprresing the Chechen Islamists with extremely brutal tactics that would never find support in the U.S – essentially leveling the Chechen capital. Yet dealing with such a threat would also be impossible with a politically correct approach to counter-terror that, for example, turns away from talking frankly about the terrorists profiles and motives.
Moral of the story? We can have freedom or we can have open borders, but we can’t have both.
San Francisco
For the first time in a long time, I’m listening to Michael Savage this evening. Because he’s not on in St. Louis, I’m listening online, namely his San Francisco station, KSFO 560 AM.
During breaks, the station is running traffic reports. They’re saying that the Bay Area freeways are jam packed, because there’s an exhibition soccer game at Candlestick this evening between Mexico and Peru.
I vaguely recall a time when California was part of America. I do know that all of what remains of America will be California nee Mexico if most of the Republocrats have their way and pass amnesty and open borders.
Washington, D.C.
Marco Rubio said on some News Church show yesterday that we had to pass amnesty and open borders that includes the fake pretend border security, because if we didn’t, Obama would issue an executive order that grants amnesty to all illegal aliens that doesn’t have the fake pretend border security.
I have a better idea: Don’t pass comprehensive immigration reform, and impeach the black bastard.
Rubio, lame. Me, smart.
Chicago
Booby Rush to House: Quit saying “illegal aliens.”
Because he apparently didn’t get this memo. Or he did and he doesn’t care, because Hispanics will have all the jobs, blacks will have all the welfare, and Democrats will win all elections. That way, everybody’s happy.
And also…jobs that Americans won’t do.
Florida
South Florida is full of these because it’s full of these:
Feiber said investigators were trying to trace the snail infestation source. One possibility being examined is a Miami Santeria group, a religion with West African and Caribbean roots, which was found in 2010 to be using the large snails in its rituals, she said. But many exotic species come into the United States unintentionally in freight or tourists’ baggage.
One unwanted invader brings another. How appropriate.
“Unintentionally.” It’s kinda hard to have one of these in your bags accidentally.
Hazleton, Pennsylvania
NYT makes more sense than RNC, if only for one day. Ironically, that day was this past Sunday, March 31, your blogmeister’s birthday. (Don’t ask — I stopped counting after my last birthday.)
In profiling Hazleton, Penn.’s immigration ordinances as a backdrop to the national immigration question, the NYT states that:
Hazleton has faded from the national attention it drew with its Illegal Immigration Relief Act in 2006. But as Republicans in Congress advance plans to provide a path to citizenship for the 11 million illegal immigrants in the country, the city presents a test case of whether the party risks leaving behind a critical part of its core constituency: white working-class voters for whom illegal immigration stirs visceral reactions.
The NYT at least acknowledges that the white working class has electoral leverage. To pay attention to the RNC and the Republican-leaning barnacle class, you would think that only Hispanics are allowed to vote.
Footnote: Barletta won re-election in PA-11 in 2012 with 58% of the vote. Romney won PA-11 with 54% of the vote. This means that Barletta outperformed Romney in his own Congressional district by four points. Small, so it seems, but apply that margin in a lot of Congressional districts in a lot of swing states that wound up going Obama, and Romney is President today.
Washington, D.C.
I don’t care what their motivations are, whether they’re really interested in the well being of their rank and file, or whether they’re just playing some partisan political game.
All I care about is that they’re gumming up the works, thereby decreasing the chances that any bill called “omnibus comprehensive reform” gets passed. It’s like I’ve been saying all along — There are only a scant few elected politicians who actively want to do the right thing, and most want to do some variant of wrong thing. But partisan sniping and jealousy over which kind of wrong thing should be done and whose interests get satisfied sooner as a result of the particular wrong thing that is done is our only real hope of no wrong thing actually happening.
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